A mother wields broom to sweep away criminals in politics (New Kerala)
Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:22:51 -0700
Pratapgarh, Apr 6 : A 70-yr-old bespectacled woman is appearing on the doorsteps in this town armed with a broom that she says is to cleanse electoral politics of criminals.
Fomer CIA analyst who shaped Englewood politics died (The Record and Herald News)
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:08:02 -0700
Walter H. Ganz, a meteoric force in Englewood politics more than a generation ago, died Thursday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 87.
NZ pensioners relatively best off in OECD
Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:00:04 -0700
Auckland University’s Retirement Policy and Research Centre has done a report based on a 2008 OECD survey of income distribution. They first note that the Tier 1 pension (NZ Super) for a single person living alone is 46% of the median GDP per capita. By comparison, the UK is 13% and US 17%. The OECD studied how many people of retirement age (0ver 65 in NZ) were below the relative poverty line of 50% of the median equivalised household disposable income. So this is not a study of absolute c
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